John David Smith
John David Smith is the Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has written or edited thirty-one books, including An Old Creed for the New South: Proslavery Ideology and Historiography, 1865-1918 ; Black Judas: William Hannibal Thomas and The American Negro; Lincoln and the U.S. Colored Troops ; Soldiering For Freedom: How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops in the Civil War ; and...See more
John David Smith is the Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has written or edited thirty-one books, including An Old Creed for the New South: Proslavery Ideology and Historiography, 1865-1918 ; Black Judas: William Hannibal Thomas and The American Negro; Lincoln and the U.S. Colored Troops ; Soldiering For Freedom: How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops in the Civil War ; and We Ask Only for Even - Handed Justice: Black Voices from Reconstruction . See less